| Description |
1 online resource (x, 335 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Policy-Making and Policy-Makers; 2. The 'New Model Army' and the Cold War, 1945-1952; 3. Service in the National Service Army; 4. The British Army of the Rhine, Middle East Land Forces, and Conventional Deterrence: 1948 to 1956; 5. Counter-Insurgency Operations, 1945 to 1956; 6. 'Fire Brigades': Expeditionary Operations, 1945-1956; 7. Duncan Sandys and the Creation of the All-Regular Army; 8. 'A Good Employer'? The All-Regular Army; 9. The British Army of the Rhine's Doctrine for Nuclear War |
| Summary |
The veterans of the Fourteenth Army who fought in Burma between 1942 and 1945 called themselves 'the forgotten army'. But that appellation could equally well be applied to the whole of the British army after 1945. Histories of Britain's post-war defence policy have usually focused on how and why Britain acquired a nuclear deterrent. David French takes a new look at these policies by placing the army centre-stage. Drawing on archival sources that have hardly been used by historians, he shows how British governments tried to create an army that would enable them to maintain their position as a ma |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Great Britain. Army -- History -- 20th century
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain. Army fast |
| Subject |
Cold War.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Pictorial.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- History, Military -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056842
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Military history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191623622 |
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0191623628 |
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1280594845 |
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9781280594847 |
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